can´t resize side pane

Thank you for your bug report. There is a minimum size set for the sidebar so that you can still view the complete thumbnails for example -- why do you want to make it smaller instead of just closing it?

Actually, the problem is once you enlarged the side pane, you cannot reduce the size by dragging it left.
The behavior is so strange.

I have the same problem too. But just one of my pdf files had this bug. When I open that pdf, side pane can extend but cant be narrowed.

As the last comment suggests that this behaviour only occurs for certain files: Could someone experiencing this issue attach a PDF file that shows this problem?
Thanks!

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

Here's a PDF that shows the bug. Once the side pane is enlarged, it is forever large. I can make it even bigger, but never smaller than wherever it previously stopped. If I close and re-open the file, the side pane's previous (large) size for this document persists, and still will not allow resize to the left. Other documents do not behave this way.

Setting to Confirmed as this bug has valid duplicates, and more users have reported this behavior. With the pdf attached to comment 7 it is 100% reproducible for me.
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Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657632

Hopefully this will be fixed.

Why did you ask me to file this bug upstream, instead of you or someone on BugSquad? You have all the information, and it is broken. If that's the next step to take, why not step in and take it, instead of stepping away?

I can't reproduce this bug with Evince 3.3.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha.

Yep. you are right. This looks resolved now. I checked it on Oneric.

Thanks,
Hem

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can't reproduce this bug with Evince 3.3.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (746108).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704232
>
> Title:
> can´t resize ¨side pane¨
>
> Status in Evince document viewer:
> New
> Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evince
>
> Ubuntu 10.10 ; Document Viewer 2.32.0
>
> i can´t resize side-pane smaller (ie. drag to left). however i can
> drag it to right.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Jan 18 08:07:50 2011
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386
> (20101007)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: evince
>
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Sounds great.

For clarification, evince 3.0.2 on ubuntu 11.04 still has this bug. I don't see anything in the changelog that specifically mentions this problem, so I can't tell what version it was first fixed in.

Thanks for the good news.

This bug still exists in 12.04 Evince 3.4.0 , like #4 suggested it is only certain files, the file I have problems with was created by TeX with beamer plugin.

I will attach it but only if needed.

Indeed, the bug was re-introduced. Here is what I *think* happened.

Bug shows in 2.32. Evince folks make the sidepane horizontally scrollable (GtkScrolledWindow with hscrollpolicy to ALWAYS or AUTOMATIC), which in turns allows the GtkIconView to be resized accordingly.

Later people complain about this unsightly horizontal scrollbar that is always present (all the more visible thanks to bug:
#990228, which puts too much padding space around the thumbnails).

hscrollbar policy is set to NEVER but this has the side effect that when resizing the sidepane down, the GtkIconView used to
display the thumbnails sets the minimal width and prevent its container from being sized down.

Public outrage ensues.

I've attached two patches to the original bug-report. The first one only fixes this issue. The second one also fixes
#990228 (upstream:671691) at the same time.

Please test and report your findings in the upstream bug report.

Hi.
Pacakges for precise including the fix are available in my ppa. Please do test.

https://launchpad.net/~kim.nguyen/+archive/ppa

Kim, your package works fine, thanks.

Faced this strange bug today.
When i enlarged side panel to right and two rows of thumbnails appeared i was unable to downsize it. Situation repeats when i open that file again.
Xubuntu 12.04. (xfce 4.10)
Evince version is 3.4.0

Same bug with:

  * Mageia 2,
  * KDE 4.8.5,
  * Evince 3.4.0 (rpm from Mageia)
  * Poppler/Cairo 0.18.4

Thanks in advance!

I have also ran into the bug on Precise 12.04 LTS, which is really a shame for an LTS release.

However, I have found a work around that resets the side pane for an afflicted PDF file.

If you can not longer make the size pane smaller:

[1] Close the offending PDF if it is currently opened in evince
[2] At the command line:

    $ gvfs-set-attribute afflicted_file.pdf "metadata::evince::sidebar_size" 100

[3] Reopen PDF and enjoy.

Hopefully this helps somebody a bit until a solution can be reached with regards to hscrollpolicy that finds its way into the official repo.

Evince 3.8 should be in the next Ubuntu cycle.

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 3.8.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
evince (3.8.2-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=medium

  * Upload to saucy based on the work from the GNOME3 ppa, thanks Rico
  * The new version fixes those issues:
    - "use nautilus's frame for thumbnails" (lp: #155726)
    - "When <Ctrl>+Scroll zooming, include Page Width, Fit Page" (lp: #254519)
    - "Fix rendering of the first visible page while resizing" (lp: #349670)
    - "Allow case-sensitive and/or regexp search in evince" (lp: #360152)
    - "When manually zooming below 50% Evince still shows 50% as
      the zoom level." (lp: #653911)
    - "can´t resize side pane" (lp: #704232)
    - "incorrectly reports document Location in its Properties if
       there are % in filename" (lp: #1112641)

  [ Rico Tzschichholz ]
  * New upstream release
  * debian/control:
    - Bump build-depends on libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.7.5),
      Add libsecret-1-dev (>= 0.5) and drop libgnome-keyring-dev
  * debian/libevdocument3-4.symbols,libevview3-3.symbols:
    - Updated
  * debian/patches:
    - Drop 03_nodisplay.patch, upstream
  * debian/patches/11_grip_gestures.patch:
    - Refreshed
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 28 May 2013 13:43:47 +0200